How it works

Three real steps. No spreadsheet required.

You describe your reality once. The tax engine does the arithmetic nobody wants to do by hand. After that, every price you type comes back in hours.

01 / DESCRIBE

Tell it your reality

Income, province or state, fixed costs, commute, as much or as little as you want.

02 / COMPUTE

We do the tax math

Accurate deductions for your country and region, so the rate is real.

03 / PRICE

Price anything

Enter a cost and watch it turn into hours of your life.

Here's what you're getting

A real calculator, doing the real math.

Actual screens from the app at app.costmehours.com, an $85k Ontario salary, priced against a $1,200 purchase.

The calculator
The CostMeHours calculator: income and fixed-cost inputs on the left, real earning power and a full cost breakdown on the right.
Your real earning power
Results panel showing a real hourly earning of CA$12.92 after tax and fixed costs, with gross, after-tax and disposable figures, and an expanded breakdown of where the money goes.
Time cost of a purchase
A $1,200 purchase priced as 93 hours of real earning, about 11 full workdays, commute and breaks included.

Every purchase, reprinted in time: $1,200 is about 11 workdays of your life.

Cost of living in hours

Cheaper isn't always cheaper.

An item might cost less abroad, until you count local wages, taxes, and living costs. Measured in hours worked, the gap often disappears. CostMeHours compares affordability the way it's actually felt: in time.

Money comes back. Time doesn't.

See what your money is really worth.

One number changes how you see every price. It takes about a minute.